The Danbury Medical Files
Hello, I am Christian Espana Schmidt, MD. During my 25 years of medical career, I have witnessed changes in the medical profession. Starting as a medical student in Guatemala, Central America, where after medical school I completed my internal medicine residency, and then I served in a rural community for 6 years with innovation that persists, I went to New York City, where I repeated another internal medicine residency and was chief resident. My joy for teaching took me to Pensilvania where I learned about Point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) a revolutionary technique to enhance physical examinations. I proudly started the POCUS program at Danbury Hospital. Now, I am developing the POCUS program of CIFC Health, a program dedicated exclusively to teaching POCUS in the outpatient clinic. As you can see, I already said I teach POCUS; however, I am very interested in other topics in medicine.
Of course I will continue to discuss POCUS, however I hope to dive in new topics in medicine.
Welcome to my podcast. I hope you find something of value.
The content is not generated with AI; all content is curated, and I try to present the evidence behind my opinions.
The PodPodcast is mainly for entertainment purposes, and my recommendations need to be taken as such.
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The Danbury Medical Files
Is it safe to perform and teach lung ultrasound?
Hey everyone. This is a follow-up chapter from the prior one, exploring how safe it is to auscultate a patient. Also, how useful.
This time I try to make the case that it is safe and also useful.
Follow me in this POCUS journey in the second season of the Danbury Medical Files.
Below I leave some interesting articles if you feel like checking.
Picano E, Scali MC, Ciampi Q, Lichtenstein D. Lung Ultrasound for the Cardiologist. JACC Cardiovasc Imaging. 2018 Nov;11(11):1692-1705. doi: 10.1016/j.jcmg.2018.06.023. PMID: 30409330.
Mumoli N, Vitale J, Giorgi-Pierfranceschi M, Cresci A, Cei M, Basile V, Brondi B, Russo E, Giuntini L, Masi L, Cocciolo M, Dentali F. Accuracy of Nurse-Performed Lung Ultrasound in Patients With Acute Dyspnea: A Prospective Observational Study. Medicine (Baltimore). 2016 Mar;95(9):e2925. doi: 10.1097/MD.0000000000002925. PMID: 26945396; PMCID: PMC4782880.
Lim JS, Lee S, Do HH, Oh KH. Can Limited Education of Lung Ultrasound Be Conducted to Medical Students Properly? A Pilot Study. Biomed Res Int. 2017;2017:8147075. doi: 10.1155/2017/8147075. Epub 2017 Mar 28. PMID: 28459070; PMCID: PMC5387807.
Espana Schmidt, C. ., & Alam, W. . (2021). Point of Care Ultrasound during the Medical Teaching Rounds in the COVID-19 Era -The Hospitalist Perspective-. Medical Science and Discovery, 8(4), 198–202. https://doi.org/10.36472/msd.v8i4.510
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